Salaried GP, Urgent Treatment Centres CDDFT

Job summary

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting salaried General Practitioners to join its Urgent Treatment Centres, providing safe, effective and patient-centred urgent care for children and adults.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering a 24-hour, seven-day service across County Durham. The role includes daytime, overnight and weekend working across agreed UTC locations, in line with your rota and job plan.

Working autonomously within the agreed service scope, you will assess and manage undifferentiated illness and injury, identify patients requiring emergency or specialist care and support timely access to appropriate treatment. You will be clinically accountable to the Clinical Lead and operationally accountable to the General Manager.

The nominal base is University Hospital of North Durham withwork across the Trust's UTC sites. Full-time and part-time applications are welcomed.

You will also have opportunities to teach and support colleagues, contribute to clinical governance and improve services through evidence and patient feedback.

Main duties of the job

You will assess, diagnose and treat patients presenting with urgent illness and injury, prioritising clinical need and recognising serious illness or deterioration. You will agree treatment plans, prescribe safely, request and review appropriate investigations, and arrange referral, discharge or follow-up.

You will provide face-to-face consultations and telephone assessment where commissioned. Home visits will be undertaken where included in the agreed service model and job plan.

Clear communication, shared decision-making and recorded safety-netting advice will be central to your practice. You will maintain accurate clinical records and provide structured handovers, including outstanding results and unresolved risks.

Working with advanced practitioners, nurses, pharmacy and operational colleagues, you will support safe patient flow and provide clinical advice within your competence. You will contribute to safeguarding, incident learning, audit, quality improvement and teaching, while maintaining professional registration, appraisal, revalidation and required training.

Job responsibilities

The post holder is clinically accountable to the Clinical Lead and operationally accountable to the General Manager, providing urgent medical care as part of a 24-hour, seven-day service across County Durham, working across agreed Trust UTC locations within the service scope and job plan. The role includes daytime, overnight and weekend working in line with the agreed rota.

Clinical assessment and management

Assess, diagnose and manage urgent illness and injury, using clinical judgement, evidence and local pathways.

Provide face-to-face and telephone consultations, with home visits where included in the agreed service model.

Recognise serious illness and deterioration, initiate treatment within competence and arrange timely escalation or transfer.

Request appropriate investigations, ensure results are acted upon and prescribe safely.

Involve patients in decisions, provide clear safety-netting advice and arrange referral, discharge or follow-up.

Safe care and clinical governance

Maintain accurate clinical records and follow Trust policies and professional standards.

Act on safeguarding concerns, obtain valid consent, assess capacity where relevant and maintain confidentiality.

Report incidents and risks, escalate safety concerns and contribute to audit, improvement and learning from patient feedback.

Teamworking and clinical support

Work with multidisciplinary colleagues to coordinate care and support safe patient flow.

Provide clinical advice, teaching and supervision within competence and agreed accreditation.

Ensure clear handovers of outstanding investigations, patients awaiting review and unresolved risks.

Service development and professional practice

Contribute to service improvement, pathway development and approved research where appropriate.

Address barriers to access, arrange reasonable adjustments and promote self-care.

Maintain professional registration, relevant competencies, continuing development, appraisal, revalidation and mandatory training.

Appointment requirements are detailed in the person specification.

About the employer

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

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